"Oh how we laughed and laughed, except I wasn't laughing..."
There's always one blinkered tit who thinks their past boorish behaviour is "funny"...
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I've been using Windows almost daily since 1992, but I'm struggling to think of any Windows images that could make me feel even close to nostalgic in the way that a good old game or even a nerdy utility might.
A teapot from the "Pipes" screensaver, perhaps? I could always spot those from a mile away, whilst my colleagues all suffered from teapot-blindness..
"been run through Bitcoin mixers and tumblers [...] exchanges were on the look out for any signs of anyone trading the coins"
I'm assuming that a mixed & tumbled bitcoin is 100% untraceable, technologically speaking.
Might the investigators somehow have knowledge regarding the newly mixed coins?
More likely that they're looking for signs of the perps being greedy or stupid when it comes to cashing in / keeping their mouths shut / not spending silly amounts of money. That's what happens in pretty much every heist movie ever, anyway.
I don't doubt that they're great machines and do a fantastic job at whatever it is they're supposed to do. But "Quantum Inspired"? Really?
By jumping on the "Quantum Computing" bandwagon, companies have created a meaningless marketing label that no longer has anything to do with the underlying science of Quantum physics.
I heard about Nethack around 3 years ago after it featured in a Reg article, and it's damned-near taken over my life since then. But, blessed relief, I finally ascended for the first time two weekends ago and so now I can finally claim my life back again.
Loop Hero does look tempting though...
We spent weeks getting abuse from HR about data regularly disappearing from their shared drive. Of course, they absolutely definitely were not deleting it themselves, it was all the fault of IT. They got all the top-nobs involved, demanding that we fix the "IT Issue". There were borderline threating emails & phone calls from directors & board members, promising dire repercussions if our mistakes weren't immediately identified & rectified, preferably served up with a sacrificial head or two.
We monitored. We logged. We investigated.
All the deletions were done by the same account - a member of HR. File activity even continued when that person was on holiday. Digging deeper, we found that because the HR dept had an annoyingly high turnover of temps and contractors, one user figured out that it was easier to simply share their own login details with them all, rather than get new accounts created. They also intentionally left a desktop unlocked and permanently logged in to that account, so that anyone passing through could sit down and use it without so much as even having to log in.
We passed out conclusions up the chain, and heard literally nothing back. An apology would have been nice, but hey, HR.
Our wood has to come from somewhere though, so better to keep on taking it from a well managed farm than continually levelling virgin woodland
Driving through New Zealand's Tarawera region was a real eye-opener for the whole family. Eco-daughter was initially aghast at the site of the tree-stumped 'devastation', but then seeing the different vast areas all in different stages of regrowth was a real up-close education in how these places are managed, long-term.
My toolbox is full of self-adhesive patches accumulated from assorted air-beds, tents, etc over the years. I'd be happy to donate them to get this problem sorted.
I've also got a few bent-bits-of-metal-with-sticky-out-bits-and-holes-in-that-I-don't-know-what-they're-for-but-will-probably-come-in-handy-one-day that they're welcome to, if that'd help.
I'm anecdotally aware of good and bad Workday rollouts.
For things to go well, a company needs to properly model/replicate/migrate its existing processes into Workday, which takes a lot of work.
Some institutions though have treated Workday as off-the-shelf HR software, assuming it will fix their current problems, only to find that it didn't actually mend their bad business processes by magic.
Step 1 - Some poor fool incorrectly sends an email to a massive recipient list
Step 2 - Indignant recipient complains via reply-to-all.
Step 3 - More and more and more people Reply-To-All complaining about all the previous Reply-To-Alls.
Step 4 - At least one wag will send a spoof "complaint", taking the piss out of the complainers
Step 5 - Goto Step 3
Happy days. Did we all learn some manners, or what?
Chess in 1K - The computer did play against you.
So you had the graphical display, the rules of what moves are valid, and the decision making algorithm all wrapped up in 1K.
IIRC, the book "Mastering Machine Code on Your ZX81", took you through every step of the code in one of the later chapters.
Caveat - It wasn't pretty, it couldn't handle castling, and it wasn't even all that good at winning, so if anyone's up for a real coding challenge...?
How? By being contractually obliged to reach certain KPIs/SLAs.
And if they should accidentally exceed those minimum contracted targets, they'll reduce the amount of resource invested to bring them back down again, thus ensuring maximum profits for shareholders.
If you want to be the best fighting force in the world, don't get Capita to train you. If you're happy being in the top 82% of the best, 74% of the time, then Capita is the way to go.